Vasil Kolev, Bulgaria won 1st place in long drink category of
THE 10TH ANNUAL FINLANDIA VODKA CUP COMPETITION FINALS CHALLENGE
MIXING SKILLS OF BARTENDERS AROUND THE WORLD

  Vasil Kolev- world champion - category long drink

Liqueur Flair Challange 2008

National competition of the high schools of tourism - 13,14 December 2007

Interhotel Veliko Turnovo

56th IBA WORLD COCKTAIL COMPETITION 2007

8th IBA WORLD FLAIRTENDING COMPETITION 2007

The Champions:
Danilo Oribe - flair category
Krista Meri - classic category

Bulgarian Champions 2007

Mariana Uahena and Tihomir Mihailov will represent Bulgaria in the World competition in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

The origin of the word ‘cocktail’ is subject to a great number of controversies. The first written appearance of the word ‘cocktail’ (the drink) was in Hudson, New York, when on 13^th May 1806 ‘The Balance, and Columbian Repository’ editor defined ‘Cock tail’ as ‘a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters’.

 
During the last two centuries at least a dozen of stories were invented, explaining the origin of the term. Most of them involve different customs or beautiful young women whose names resemble ‘cocktail’. The most trustworthy explanations are:

1. Coquetier is the French word for an egg-cup, in which a Frenchman in New Orleans is said to have served mixed drinks to his guests. In time they came to ask for his ‘coquetiers’ and the word was corrupted to ‘cocktail’
2. An old French recipe containing mixed wines, called ‘coquetel’, was perhaps carried to America from General Lafayette in 1777
3. A woman, named Betsy Flannigan, from Virginia, is believed to have served a handsome young soldier a mixed drink containing all the colours of a cock’s tail. He named it a ‘cock tail’.
4. In 1769 the term "cock-tailed" appeared, a racing term used to describe a non-thoroughbred horse. It was the usual practice to dock the tails of such animals, causing the tail to look like that of a cockerel. According to the journals of the time, a "cock-tailed" horse was one of mixed blood. It is a short step to accept that cock-tail(ed) would soon become accepted as a term to describe anything containing mixed fluids.
5. The centuries-old expression ‘cocked-tail’ describes a horse or person displaying high spirits. It naturally follows that a beverage seen to raise people's spirits would be called a ‘cocktail.’